Last week, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to join my students on a school trip to London. One of my students and a colleague invited me to join them to the Warner Bros Harry Potter studio tour… Read the rest
Category: MSc Digital Education
Rising Sun
Last weekend I was invited to come over to friends for some board games. They had a new game called Rising Sun. I hadn`t heard of the game, which is not surprising as it has been released in 2018.… Read the rest
A research review
In this critical review, I will be looking at the research ‘Open to influences: what counts as academic influence in scholarly networked Twitter participation’ (Stewart, 2015, p. 294). Bonnie Stewart’s (2015) research mainly focuses on how academics establish and assess … Read the rest
Game Review: Horizon Zero Dawn
I am Aloy a six and a half-year-old girl and an outcast. At the beginning of the game I get lost and find some sort of electronic device, people from the community do not talk to me because I am … Read the rest
Finding an example of experimental intervention
For this week I have been looking for research conducted using the experimental intervention. I decided not to use the university’s library for this, but to look at other available research through Academia. Finding something that fits with the … Read the rest
Stroop experiment
For week 2 of the MOOC I picked the experimental intervention method.
As part of the course I was asked to take a test, which you can find here. My response time to the first parts was 15.902 seconds … Read the rest
SimCity
So this wasn’t my first encounter with SimCity, however, I do think it is the first encounter in which it is even slightly possible for me to grasp the idea of SimCity. I think the last time I played this … Read the rest
Changing realm, race and faction
So I hadn’t had time to finish writing this blog, so here it is, two weeks after the fact.
I played WoW (World of Warcraft) with some of my fellow students on a Monday. All of us had created a … Read the rest
My first blog (MOOC SOCRMx)
I have been asked to write my first blog as part of the MOOC for SOCRMx by answering a few questions.
What kind of topics are you interested in researching?
At the moment I am considering the following topics. Blended … Read the rest
Correlation between violence and violent media?
For this week of my course at Edinburgh University I am looking at the effects of video games. Or actually I am reading about the correlation between violence and violent media. Everyone has heard of the news stories of kids … Read the rest